List #62 - Central America
Our latest list revolves around Central America, and includes numerous rare and unrecorded items. Topics range from politics to bullfighting, with a healthy dose of dictatorship. Enjoy!
Catalogues
Tennessee Book Fair
This list features items in our booth at the inaugural Tennessee Book and Ephemera Fair. Highlights include choice pieces of African Americana, Texas oil reports, a manuscript accounting of slaves on a Tennessee plantation, a scrapbook of a female circus clown, a Japanese immigration guide to Brazil, and more. Enjoy!
RBMS 2025
Our list for the RBMS Showcase in New Haven comprises a representative sampling of our wares, ranging from archives to photographs to rare and unusual imprints. Highlights include a panoramic photograph of Native American students; a couple of nice manuscript cook books; an archive from Reconstruction-era Georgia; a Mexican catechism in Mixtec; an unusual edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin; a scrapbook featuring vernacular photos of MLK; and much more. Enjoy!
Dallas Antiquarian Book Fair 2025
Our list for the Dallas Antiquarian Book Fair leans into Western Americana and Texana, with a healthy sprinkling of African Americana, Mexico, and more. Highlights include African Americana masonic works; photographs of Native Americans; an archive of photographs of a notable Confederate Texas family; an engraving of the founder of the Champs d'Asile; an unrecorded Guadalajara imprint; and much more. Enjoy!
List #61 - Western Americana
Our latest list goes back to our roots, focusing on Western American history. Highlights include a rare Mexican circular discussing shipping to California; a photographic archive of a Mexican-American family; some lovely photos of Alaska; “Arizona’s only negro newspaper”; publications from Japanese internment camps at Tule Lake and Gila River; rare maps of Oklahoma and California; catalogues of Native American oil leases for sale; and more. Enjoy!
List #60 - New Acquisitions
Our newest list contains an assortment of thirty fresh acquisitions, ranging from letters to photos to unrecorded copies of printed works. Highlights include a scrapbook of an African-American GI in post-war Japan; an Arizona community newspaper; a Cuban cook book; a work on “Eskimo children”; an archive of Japanese California Methodists; a western travel album; and more. Enjoy!
New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2025
Our list for the New York Book Fair is as grand and varied as the event itself. Highlights include an archive of Black Louisiana social clubs; the diary of an Alaskan gold miner; a ledger belonging to the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1890; splendid photographs of mining in Brazil; the archive of a New York sea captain; rare works of Latin Americana, including photos, broadsides, and unique imprints; a photographic archive of a Wisconsin Indian school; and much more. Enjoy!
List #59 - South America
Our latest list contains twenty-five items printed in or relating to South America. Highlights include a correspondence about Brazil’s incursions into Bolivia; a list of the children of Brazilian slaves; rare broadsides from Chile; a work on a Colombian railroad that was never built; a tactical manual from New Granada; works on the Japanese diaspora to South America, and more. Enjoy!